Optimize cost and performance with query acceleration for azure.
Azure data lake storage architecture.
Azure data lake storage immutable storage is now in preview.
Azure data lake storage static website now in preview.
Typical uses for a data lake.
This scalable cloud data lake offers a single storage structure for multiple analytic projects of different sizes.
Azure data lake analytics supports only azure data lake store and azure blob storage.
Disk storage high performance highly durable block storage for azure virtual machines.
When to use a data lake.
Azure data lake storage massively scalable secure data lake functionality built on azure blob storage.
Microsoft azure data lake architecture is helping data scientists engineers and analysts by solving much of their big data dilemma.
Data lake storage gen2 is the result of converging the capabilities of our two existing storage services azure blob storage and azure data lake storage gen1.
Features from azure data lake storage gen1 such as file system semantics directory and file level security and scale are combined with low cost tiered storage high availability.
File storage file shares that use the standard smb 3 0 protocol.
Azure data explorer fast and highly scalable data exploration service.
Along with data lake microsoft introduced azure u sql.
Azure data lake storage archive tier is now generally available.
An introduction to u sql.
Azure data lake analytics includes u sql a language that unifies the benefits of sql with the expressive power of your own code.
In microsoft s own words.